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originally posted in:Halo Archive
Edited by PsychoPineapple:
1/19/2015 10:32:29 PM
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At the end of the Forerunner-Flood war, Mendicant Bias attacked the Lesser Ark in an attempt to prevent the firing of the Halo Array, correct? Or perhaps he simply thought of it as the last Forerunner holdout...
In any case, my question is this:
If Mendicant knew about the Halos, why did he not attack a specific Installation, rather than the heavily protected Ark? If he disabled one Halo, 1/7 of the galaxy would be unaffected by the Halo effect if the array was activated, thus allowing Flood in that section to survive.
Edit: Or were the Halos put in place via portal as the attack was happening? That would make more sense...
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[quote]At the end of the Forerunner-Flood war, Mendicant Bias attacked the Lesser Ark in an attempt to prevent the firing of the Halo Array, correct? Or perhaps he simply thought of it as the last Forerunner holdout...[/quote]Correct, and it was the last Forerunner handout. [quote]If Mendicant knew about the Halos, why did he not attack a specific Installation, rather than the heavily protected Ark? If he disabled one Halo, 1/7 of the galaxy would be unaffected by the Halo effect if the array was activated, thus allowing Flood in that section to survive.[/quote]Halos' locations were kept secret.
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I guess i just assumed that since Mendicant was a Contender class ancilla, he would be privy to that info. Then again, even 343 GS didnt know the location of the Ark, or even what it was exactly. So that makes sense.
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The Halos were constantly being moved around the galaxy through slipspace, it kept them safely hidden but ended up having negative effects too since it [i]massively[/i] slowed down slipspace 'traffic' to the point where it was decreed that only Lifeworker vessels were allowed to enter slipspace.
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343 didn't "remember" the location of the Ark due to the compartmentalization of his memory. While Mendicant was massively advanced and had access to a ridiculous amount of information, many things were kept from him after his betrayal to the Flood.
